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Shazam!

That looks great, but what's really exciting for me is that the movie is so Toronto it hurts!

Like, not only is that obviously a TTC Subway line, but that high school he's going to is actually Danforth Technical Collegiate Institute, the high school I went to growing up.
 
I liked the New 52 take on Shazam (about one of the only things I liked about New 52 honestly), so this seeing they are taking from it pleases me.

But why did you remix HUMBLE, trailer?
 
On one hand, it's a good thing they're moving away from the previous Syndering of DC. On the other hand, this may be a monkey's paw wish if that trailer has anything to show for it.
 
Yeah, no thank you. 20 seconds in and this is the new 52 Captain Marvel, of which the only good thing I can say is that he had cool costume. Shame, but I honestly haven't bothered with DC movies since Man of Steel, it's just a trend that continues.
 
BlueBiscuit said:
Yeah, no thank you. 20 seconds in and this is the new 52 Captain Marvel, of which the only good thing I can say is that he had cool costume. Shame, but I honestly haven't bothered with DC movies since Man of Steel, it's just a trend that continues.
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If you watched literally 10 seconds more you'd see this is basically a comedy. You dipped literally just before the tone change where they punk you out. :p
 
I'm actually kind of a massive fan of the concept of Billy Batson as a kind of troubled youth for two reasons.

1. It makes for a more interesting tension between the personas of child Billy and adult Captain Marvel.

2. Being a kid fucking sucks. And the gee whiz Leave it to Beaver tone is one of the few holdovers of older superhero comics that I'd argue really is genuinely outmoded. It's an idealization imposed on children by adults for either their own escapism or for their misguided ideas of what kids want that doesn't reflect reality.

This movie looks pretty promising, but never trust a trailer.
 
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I mean, it looks like a bad Adam Sandler film. Or perhaps "Rob Schiender is... a superhero" is the most painfully nasal voice you can make.
 
This look like it has a lot of promise. Easily the best of the three trailers DC released this week.



I can see why people might not be interested, but I don't think most people turned off by that trailer would ever be interested in a Captain Marvel movie. Both Captain Marvel and Superman have an inherent cheesiness to them, while Superman has to find a way around that because he's one of the pillars that holds up a major publishing company, Captain Marvel can and does lean into that cheesiness.
 
Whoever edited the first half of this film should be shot for their crimes of "fade to black every 5 seconds".

Whoever edited the second half should get a raise for making me smile like an idiot. Billy you fucking twerp God this looks good.
 
My only gripe is that they made Djimon Honsou more
And less

Which is so confusing to me
 
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"Shazaaaaaam."
"... what're you forreal-?"
"SAYIT"
"OKAY D:"

"You're a disabled foster kid you have it all" got me on board quickly but that definitely cinched it. What's going on, why does a DC movie look like Not Ass.
 
I know it doesn't work that way in practice, but I feel that Captain Marvel should be physically stronger than Superman, but that Superman has the overall edge due to his additional powers like heat vision and super breath.
 
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I know it doesn't work that way in practice, but I feel that Captain Marvel should be physically stronger than Superman, but that Superman has the overall edge due to his additional powers like heat vision and super breath.
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Captain Marvel has lightning instead of the heat vision, precog, super intelligence as an actual power, and his lightning is specifically a weakness of Superman's due to it's magical nature. He pummels Superman into the ground with it in Kingdom Come, and that's a Superman who's soaked up so much Yellow Sun that he's become immune to Kryptonite.
 
The glowy lightning bolt panel on the costume just looks dumb to me.
 
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